Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-17

! equal to anV rooster in the land, and If
! not seen the Growing cannot be told from
that of cock.
/ There is a splendid spring OF sulphur
water near EIizey, in Levy county, that
IS said to be OF much better quality than
any heretofore found in the State.
Saturday Palatka's new fire alarm bell
was hung in the tower erected for that
purpose over the engine house. The bell
| is very large one, weighing 800 pounds.
Mr.. Kneeland, section master at Sat
| suma, was run over by hand-car near
Pomona Thursday evening and badly cut
! on the head ana arm and his hip dlslo-
Gated.
/ January's accounts in tho Pensacola
! post Office show an increase over pre-
/ yious months of $1,000. q gain of 10 per
cent. over the best month ever recorded
! in that office.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
! Temperance Union of Madison have M ade
| donation OF their furniture to the Libra
ry Association, and will try again to re-
! Vive the latter.
Pensacola has many and divers meth
DDS of regulating its municipal officers,
but the one In vogue now is the trial OF
first one and then the other OF their city
commissioners.
John Gresham, while fighting a woods
fire at his place near Welaka, on Friday,
had his horse Killed while be was riding
him, by a falling tree, and came near
losing his own life.
Two prisoners made their escape from
the Jail at Ocala Tuesday night. One was
Henry Williams, supposed murd erer
| (black) D feet inches high, rather pop
/ eyed" and one was John Lane (mulattO)
. feet or 8 inches high, and hair cut
quite close.
The Advance-Gazette thinks there is
no doubt of the fact that the interstate
commerce bill will be of great benefit to
| Pensacola, and that the rich resources OF
the South will no longer be brought into
ruinOus competition with the cities of the
! North and West.
AT present there is no beer on draught
! in Palatka, and the lovers of that bever-
age have to buy it by the bottle. The fam
| Inc is caused by the strike of the freight
| handlers North, and it is needless TO say
that they have no sympathy from the beer
! drinkers in Palatka.
The Indian boys at st. Augustine have
been properly clad with new clothes fur
nished by the government, and wend their
way at O'clock every morning to the
! building in the rear OF the Cathedral,
where they receive instruction from the
Sisters OF st. Joseph.
Rogers Military Band, from Goshen,
Ind., which Will be in attendance through
out the Chautauqua assembly at De Flu
MAX Springs, arrived at Pensacola Mon
/ day. They stopped over to take in Fort
PIckens, where Geronimo is, Forts Bar
rancas and McRae and the navy yard.
j. E. Tucker, Land Commissioner of the
Florida Railway and Navigation rail-
road, and party of Western capitalists
are in Levy and Alachua counties looking
lands They IN
10000 TO 100000 acres, and the sale Will
very probably be cOnsummated in the
next few days.
A strong petition, signed by all the
leading business men at Pensacola, has
been forwarded to Washington. praving
the immediate completion of that portion
of the new public buildings to be occu-
pied by the post office, as II is necessary
10 have more room in the post office, now
mat the establishment of free delivery
| system is assured.
The bear in the country back of Poin'
Washington, Escambl2 county, must no.
only he plentiful, but some of them are
old timers, judging from the big bear Skin
| brought down by the trading schooner
ROGa last Tuesday. 1t was fully eIcht
feet long and proportionately wide. The
animal from which the skin was taken
was killed by one of the natives a short
udCh lIOLl Tue pOIDU.
Micanopy Gazette: The Kelsey japan
plum, so generally introduced last wear.
has made very satisfactory growth.
Where budded on to native plum stocks
they have done even better than the orIgi-
nal roots. Reliable parties who have
grown this fruit in Florida report that il
ripens between Aug. Is and Sept. 10, and
has small stone. Three to five of these
plums weigh pound. They are firm and
hi Ill -.
luscious, and when eVaporated exceed
any pTune of commerce. Buds bear when
one or two years old and never tail to have
heavy crop. 1t is a food as well as a
luxury. These plums can be planted be-
tween young orange trees, and will paw a
good profit before the oranges bear. Sew
eral citizens have already planted them
this season and many more will do so.
At the camp of the railroad construc-
| ton forces mile north of Plant City, on
! last Saturday. d shooting scrape occurred
which resulted in the woundinS of two
! negroes. The quarrel, az usual, arose
| over game of cards, and Sam Williams
/ and Charles Bradwell did the shooting
| while Williams and Richard Young, q
! by-stander, received the shots. The
men were arrested and had a hearing
before Justice Merlin, who, from the very
| much mixed evidence, decided on levying
a fine OF 50 and costs OF suit on each.
Young mas painful wound in the arm,
aud Williams a wound in the ankle and
one in the breast. The shot in the breast
! has puzzled DR.. Wells, the attending sur
! geon, considerably, as no trace of its
course after entering can be found, and
the doctor Is inclined 10 the opinion that
! IL rebounded out.
One of the most important events for
| the town OF Tltusvile was contaminated
| last week. 1t was the sale OF the Titus
House property, consisting Of the hotel
and about three acres OF land to d Trea-
ton { n. }. capitalist, ID. 5. Hutchinson,
| IL Is his intention to put up large house,
| facing the river, and lay ont q siXty-foot
| street from Washington avenue to the no.
tel, selling off the lots for business pur-
| poses. The hotel will be 45Xl60 feet, three
stories high, and will contain sixty Sleep
ing rooms on the two upper floors.
| 1t viii be made of concrete.
and Mr.. Hutchinson estimates that when
completed and furnished it will cost be-
tween $4,000 and $50, 900. He will put a
crusner on the ground soon and COM
| mence crushing the coquina rock, which
will make the concrete. He hopes to have
the building competed next year.
Besides the insurance, licenses, etc.,
paid by Jacksonville's larger hotels, Mr..
Lorimier, City Auditor, and Charles f.
or " q